Mine or His?

Guest post from Tom King:

Henry David Thoreau said, "All men lead lives of quiet desperation".  A few men shared on Friday what keeps them up at night.  We all have concerns.  But, we try to take control of it all and do it all ourselves and we can't.  We often forget that when we asked Him to come into our life and take control, we gave it all and He is in control.  Many times we do not understand the situations... we only see the immediate and it's easy for us to put our priorities first and think that that's God's priorities.  But, have we really given it all to Him?  He can handle it.  He is the main actor now and we are the understudy, doing what we see Him doing.  Are we in prayer?  Have we given it all to Him?  Are we still trying to control everything ourselves?  We cannot do it on our own.  It is only in Him and in Him alone that we walk.  Walk with Christ today.  Ask him to show you the way and walk in it.  'cuz it's not about me, it's all about Him.  He will carry you when you can walk no more...

Taking a shot at vision

Guest post from James Tate:

I have been thinking about guys in community who are "unconnected", so I modified our vision statement to:

"A community of men who identify and activate their individual gifts, passion, and relationships in order to connect the men of MFUMC with one another as well as the communities they touch, and join them in the journey of growth in discipleship of Jesus Christ."

Take your shot!

Target Practice: A vision

What I see us doing as the Friday Morning Men's Group.

What I see happening as we continue to do and we are doing.

A community of men who identify and activate their individual gifts, passion, and relationships in order to connect the men of MFUMC with one another and join them in the journey of growth in discipleship of Jesus Christ.

It needs some wordsmithing.

Help.  Take a shot.

Lil Lambs and Discipleship?

Yes.  At the core of the reason of why we do Lil Lambs is Discipleship...right?

Check out the video at: movie link to find out how.

March Madness

This is a wide side community building event.

We could:

Bring in food.

Find some guys to prepare the food as part of the community building.

We could:

Identify some wide side guys we know and each personally invite them to come.

Identify newer members of guys we might not know and invite them.

Remember the genius of the "and" here and maybe look to do both.

We need to:

Identify a date and figure out how to tell our story about why someone would want to come.

Is there a logical next step from this event we would look to point someone to?

Habitat Leadership Team on the Continuum

Commitment Level- fairly high- probably involves total of three meetings.  Take on a crew leader role for a build day or half a build day.  The primary responsibility of crew leader is to make sure folks who come to help are engaged in a meaningful way with others at habitat that day and with you as the crew leader.

Where exactly on the continuum?  Somewhere closer to deeper than wide.  Who would be attracted to it.  Maybe somebody who is ready to "take the next step".

Is there someone in your community that you would like to see offered the opportunity to take a next step in the discipleship journey?

Shoot me an email and we will invite them to the March 24 Leadership Team Meeting.

forrestcate@mariettafumc.org

Find the purpose of the FMMG

See if you can find the purpose of the Friday Morning Men's group in this video.  Brian McNair and Lowry Curry are working on this ministry, but why?

The first three to post a comment with the correct answer will receive a prize this Friday.